Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party is to boycott a parliamentary vote on a controversial new draft constitution aimed at giving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers, in protest over the arrest of its MPs. “We will not use our vote for this illegitimate reform while our deputies are unjustly under arrest and ...
The Kremlin deplored Tuesday the United States’ blacklisting of Russian figures as a move that further damages bilateral ties. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Washington’s decision to blacklist Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin, lawmaker Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, represented “further steps in the artificially created degradation of our ...
